5 Wishes Pdf
anecdotes of my ancestors. You may remember the inquiries
I made among the remains of my relations when you were
with me in England, and the journey I undertook for that
purpose. Imagining it may be equally agreeable to* you to
know the circumstances of my life, many of which you are
yet unacquainted with, and expecting the enjoyment of a
week’s uninterrupted leisure in my present country retirement, I sit down to write them for you. To which I have
besides some other inducements. Having emerged from the
poverty and obscurity in which I was born and bred, to a
state of affluence and some degree of reputation in the world,
and having gone so far through life with a considerable share
of felicity, the conducing means I made use of, which with
the blessing of God so well succeeded, my posterity may
like to know, as they may find some of them suitable to
their own situations, and therefore fit to be imitated.
That felicity, when I reflected on it, has induced me sometimes to say, that were it offered to my choice, I should
have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its
beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a
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